Bill Keating

I just want to emphasize the UASI grants, the Urban Area Security grants, those cuts concern me.

There is no U.S. jobs lost in this respect. These are jobs that, frankly, can't be filled.

I would also like to mention where hundreds of millions of dollars of revenues are been lost right now in our country, and particularly in my region.

There is a huge bipartisan support for this.

Amendment to H. Res. 351 offered by the Honorable William Keating, a Representative in Congress from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

I supported, and continue to support, the Iran nuclear deal because it made us and our allies more secure and brought Iran more in line with international principles of nonproliferation.

There is plenty of areas of agreement in that respect.

I favor too very strong sanctions in this area.

Iran without a nuclear weapon or Iran with a delayed nuclear weapon is better than Iran with a nuclear weapon right now.

I think everyone, almost universally, whether they favored or didn't favor the JCPOA, acknowledged that they were about 8 to 12 weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.

The Obama administration forced Assad to give up 2,600 pounds of chemical weapons.

We want to do that all without excessive U.S. casualties and without a war with Russia.

Our first goal is to protect the Syrian people and we would, eventually, like to see good governance in Syria.

We have to keep them separate, evaluating every policy as to whether it helps at least one of those goals without setting back one of the others.

If we are cutting off humanitarian aid, if we are not putting in place things on the ground, if we are refusing to let refugees into the United States, we are not then doing what we need to do.

Let us have learned from that lesson that we can't just be so high and happy because we have had--there was a strike.

We cannot shirk our responsibility as Members of Congress.

I would hope as we look to and ask President Trump to come to Congress, and I hope he does, that we don't punt.

I do want to emphasize, however, that support for the Taliban, such as from Iran, in my view, no more than the support that Russia provides, is also very much a function of the regional disbelief, at this point, that a stable, successful…

Words are truly inadequate to express our country's gratitude at the extraordinary sacrifice of these individuals and heroes, and our prayers are with their families.

What are nuclear weapons for? Why do we have them? When would we consider using them?

I look at that as a terrible downward spiral that would have great implications.

I think I can speak for most of my colleagues, they are not going to go down that road.

It is great to welcome Mr. Rose, who comes from America's hometown in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

I am grateful that President Donald Trump is taking the regime and its threat seriously.